The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-11


not shrink when the national welfare was
concerned, are now involved in the safe
guard of our Pacific section and the com
merce of the Pacific seas.
Hawaii is the Malta of the Pacific. Her
commerce is almost entirely with the
United States. We are bound to Hawaii
by treaty of reciprocity. So long as
she Is independent or free from foreign
influences we are content that she should
govern herself in her own way, under an
innocent, simple government. When that
government becomes SO helpless as to
tempt the cupidity of the maritime
powers, 1T Is then our duty to shelter il
under an authority which the navies of
the world will respect. We take it for
granted that Mr.. Cleveland has made it
known to the maritime powers that the
| independence of Hawaii, so far as thew
are concerned, and its dependence on the
United States must be accepted and
respected. This is so obvious that we
cannot doubt that Mr.. Bayard has been
instructed to announce the Monroe doc
trlne on the Pacific with as firm a tone as
Mr.. Adams announced it to the South
American and Central American national
tiles sixty years ago.
Whlle we claim our rights in the Pacific
we must accept our res ponsibilities. Re-
cent events In Hawaii make it necessary
for us to consider the duty of drawing the
Sandwich Islands towards the United
States by ties more tangible than those
existing. We have reel procity, and we
do not care for annexation 90 LONG AZ onr
protectorate is not menaced. But we
must always remember that Hawaii is the
American Malta, and to be defended "a
resolutely as Pitt defended the Malta of
the Mediterranean. To make this duty
easier we should lay cable between San
francisco and Honolulu. Private enter.
prise may do it, but if that should hest
tate we have surplus in the treasury
which keeps our statesmen in state of
anxiety to know how to spend it, A frac-
ton of that surplus would give us another
strand In the ties which must forever bind
the Sandwich Islands to the United States.
This ID question of craftsmanship, not
politics-something that does not belong
to party, but to higher and purer ange
of discussiOn-and behind it lie other
duties, which sooner or later must come,
in the development of that splendid des-
tiny to which we have been appointed by
providence. The contemplation of this
destiny may we'll employ the higher facul-
ties of thinkers and statesmen. They
must look to the day when "Civis A1neri-
canus sum" will be the password in Aus
tralasian seas; when representatives from
Australia, the Sandwich Islands, japan
and those fair islands and archipelagoes
which are only known to us in romance
and adventure, lowered by an all-fruitful |
sun and washed by teeming, temperate
seas, must take part with us in that |
coming parliament whose deliberations |
Will sway the destiuies of mankind. |
We owe the protection of Hawaii-the
of the links which bind her
10 the republicans our immediate contri-
'ution to the magnificent career awaiting
ne Anglo-Saxon race. To throw it away,
% shrink from the duties which it i'm
olles-duties incumbent to-day and not
or o-morrOw-would be as foolish as it
would have been for Jefferson to throw
way our vast trans Mississippi empire
Vhen the chance for obtaining it came
Nth the rupture of the treaty of Amiens.
Much is said to Mr.. Cleveland about
GLOWING the policy of Jackson in the
dismissal of tidewaiters and excisemen
We shall be content if he follows the
'olicy of Jefferson, policy which, with
ut firing single gun in anger. gave us
n empire.